112 



lt is very probably the "wild Rat, bigger tlian a Cat" mentioned 

 by Bosman. 



A small collection of Fishes, formed during the voyage of H. M. S. 

 Chanticleer, and presented to the Societyby the Lords Commission- 

 ers of the Admiralty, together with numerous other Zoological spe- 

 cimens obtained during the sarae voyage, wa8 laid upon the table. 

 It contained among others a young individual of the Scyllium cirra- 

 tum, in the statė in which it is described by Schneider as the Sąualus 

 punctatus : a specimen of the Blennius pilicornis, Cuv., described ori- 

 ginally by Marcgrave, and remarkable for the long acicular tooth at 

 the back of the lower jaw on each side, a peculiarity which may here- 

 after cause it to be regarded as the type of a distinct genus : a spe- 

 cimen of the Antennarius scaber, Chironectes scaber, Cuv., also de- 

 scribed by Marcgrave : and two species which appeared to be new to 

 science, and which were thus characterized by Mr. Bennett : 



Chromis T^nia. Chrom. brunneo-nigrescens : pinnis nigrescentibusj 

 caudali subrotundatd nigro fasciatim punctatissimd : maculd ro- 

 tundd infraoculari, altera ad basin pinnce caudalis superni, ta- 

 nidqiie ab oculo per medium latus ad pinnam caudalem ductd, 

 nigris. 

 D. U' A. 1. P. 13. C. 16. 

 Hab. apud Trinidad. 



Affinis Chrom. punctato, Cuv., {Labrus punctatus, L.). Differt a 

 figūra Blochiana tsenia laterali, pinnisque haud lineatis : differt etiam 

 numero radiorum pinnarum. 



MoNACANTHCS SETiFEB. MoTt. Cūuda htspidd : cirris brevibus mul- 

 tifidis raris conspersus •• pinnce dorsalis radio 2do longissimo : 

 pallide brunneus, lateribus mediis nigro undulatim longitudinaliter 

 lineatis : pinnce caudalis rotundaUe fascid angustd submedid. 

 D. 1,28. A. 29. C. 12. P. 12. 



A description, by the Rev. Robert Holdsvvorth, of a fish taken in the 

 seine, at Start Bay, on the south coast of Devon, in August 1825, 

 was read. Mr. Holdsworth regards the fish in question as the Um- 

 brina, Scicena Aquila, Cuv. ; with which species, occasionally taken in 

 the English Channel, his description agrees. 



